Ignorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live for ourselves alone.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Only the man who says no is free
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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